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Albert Abraham Michelson Niels Bohr …
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ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON : In the nineteenth century American professors'salaries would seldom support a dignified style of life, and to be a proper physics professor it was usually necessary to inherit wealth or marry it. It was less necessary to have a doctorate—as late as only a minority of professors had the Ph.D.—and physicists could set out with any sort of training.
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Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strelno, Germany in When he was two years old his family moved to the US, and he grew up in the rough mining towns of Murphy’s Camp, California and Virginia City, Nevada. As a youngster, he showed some aptitude for science, and at age 16 he obtained a ...
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